Cooee!

Just wanted to share this animation of Cardboard Colin that I’ve made as an experiment. I made it in what is probably the most wasteful, time consuming way possible, by constructing each frame on a separate piece of paper with a new piece of cardboard each time. I think if I wanted to make something longer, I’d have to try some other techniques. Maybe some kind of cut-out / stop motion thing. The last resort (but also much easier) would be to do it digitally. Anyway, I’ve got no real plans of making a My Cardboard Life film yet, just messing about for now.

that’s great! if you did want to do longer ones, i would suggest that you reused the heads at the very least, and just had a stock of heads with different expressions or transitons between them. it might loose a little of the charm, but it would save the effort of cutting out a new head each time. the body could obviously be done that way too another thing gained by doing this is not having the ripples of the corrugated cardboard that show through change every frame. if that makes ANY sense at all. it would be kinda interesting to have just the occasional frame of a strip animated, to emphasise the gag… the ones that are springing to my mind are a couple of octopus pie strips, but finding thems gonna take too long. and half term’s going to be over in 2 hours and 50 minutes (that is really depressing) and so like a good 6th former i’m going to do all the homework between now and 5 in the morning, and then get about an hours sleep (at most) and thus not learn anything in the lessons. i’ve thought this through A LOT, see?

You could just create the comic with a blank cardboard body and draw the face/arms/legs in photoshop for every frame. This would mean that you keep the same cardboard base for the entire animation without having to recreate and scan every frame

If you want to get fancy, you could scan all the elements (head, body, background) separately, then assemble them in layers in photoshop. Then you could move them around without having to rescan every time.